MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE, YOUTH AND SPORTS OF UKRAINE IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV ENGLISH DEPARTMENT THE USE OF MASS-MEDIA RESOURCES IN LANGUAGE TEACHING Course paper presented by ……………………. a fourth-year student of the English department Supervised by ………………… an assistant professor of the English department Lviv 2014 Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………..…………3-5 Chapter 1. Usage of Mass-Media sources in Language Teaching………………………………………………………………………. 6-12 1.1. The use of newspapers in the classroom………………………..……6-7 1.2. Magazines in language teaching………………………………..…….7-8 1.3. Teaching English with the help of radio…………………………..…8-9 1.4. Television and the classroom…………………………………….….9-10 1.5. Teaching English through films………………………………..…..10-12 1.6. Internet – the biggest source of language teaching…………..……….12 Chapter 2. Implementing Mass Media into class activities………………..13-21 2.1. Lexical drills…………………………………………………………..…13-16 2.2. Speaking drills………………………………………………………..…16-17 2.3. Writing tasks……………………………………………………….……17-18 2.4. Listening tasks…………………………………………………………...18-19 2.5. Reading tasks………………………………………………………….…19-21 Conclusions………………………………………………………………….. 22-23 List of references………………………………………………………..……24-26 Appendices …………………………………………………………………...27-31 Introduction Mass media (that is, press, radio, television) play an important role in the life of society. People are united into one global community with the help of mass media. They inform, educate and entertain people. We can learn about what is happening in the world very fast using mass media. They also influence the way people look at the world and make them change their views. Mass media mould public opinion. Millions of people in their spare time watch TV and read newspapers.     The earliest kind of mass media was newspaper. It is a publication that presents and comments on the news in much detail in comparison to radio and TV newscasts. Newspapers play an important role in informing people of current events.     There are daily and weekly newspapers. Daily newspapers print world, national and local news. Many dailies are morning papers, others are afternoon papers. Sunday issues of the dailies are usually larger than the weekday ones. They may include special sections on such topics as entertainment, finance and travel, a guide to TV programmes, coloured comics. Weeklies report of weddings, births, deaths and news of local business and politics. Most weeklies do not print world or national news. Magazine is one of the major mass media tool. It is a collection of articles and stories. Usually magazines also contain illustrations. Magazines do not focus on daily, rapidly changing events. They provide more profound analysis of events of proceeding week. Magazines are designed to be kept for a longer time so they have a cover and binding and are printed on better paper.    The most exciting and entertaining means of mass media is television. It brings moving pictures and sounds directly to people's homes. Commercial TV stations broadcast mostly entertainment programmes because they must attract larger numbers of viewers in order to sell advertising time at high prices. These programmes include light dramas called situation comedies; action-packed dramas about life of detectives, police officers, lawyers and doctors; shows featuring comedians, dancers and singers; movies; quiz shows; soap operas; cartoons. There are also sport programmes and brief summaries of local, national and international news. Advertising is an important part of TV. Commercials appear between and during most programmes. Radio is widespread for its portability. It means that radio can easily be carried around. People like listening to the radio on the beach or picnic, while driving a car or just walking down the street.      There is a lot of advertisement on mass media. Some of the TV and radio stations and newspapers are owned by different corporatio...